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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Cram ten hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama--and nothing about the fact that the production is fake. Hidden in a desert warehouse, their spaceship replica is equipped with state-of-the-art special effects dreamed up by the scientists partnering with the shady cable network airing the show. And it's a hit! Millions of...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
When Laurie Moran's husband was brutally murdered, only three-year-old Timmy saw the face of his father's killer. Five years later his piercing blue eyes still haunt Timmy's dreams. Laurie is haunted by more -- the killer's threat to her son as he fled the scene: "Tell your mother she's next, then it's your turn..." Now Laurie is dealing with murder again, this time as the producer of a true-crime, cold-case television show. The series will launch...
5) Insatiable
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Meena Harper, forced to write about vampires even though she doesn't believe in them, falls in love with Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side. It's a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire hunters, would prefer to see him dead for. The problem is: Lucien's already dead! And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare.
6) Prophet
Author
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 30
Description
Television news anchor John Barrett's comfortable existence is shaken when he realizes his colleagues manipulate the truth to fit their own agendas. Worse still, it appears his father's "accidental" death may not have been an accident after all. When John begins hearing voices, the state is set for an epic struggle that has the power to tear society apart.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, "--Amazon.com.
Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things, "--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The Internet isn’t all cat videos. There’s also Felicia Day - violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie specialist, and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world... or at least semi-influential in the world of Internet Geeks. After growing up in the south where she was "home-schooled for hippie reasons," Felicia moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming...
15) #MurderFunding
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Becca auditions for a new, non-lethal reality show featuring Painiacs, hoping to prove that her deceased mother was not Alcatraz 2.0 executioner, Molly Mauler.
Who Wants to Be a Paniac?, the latest reality TV show, on the hunt for the next big-hit serial killer. No one is actually going to murder anyone, as real as the fake gore and pretend murder may appear-- right? When Becca Martinello's perfectly normal soccer mom dies in a...
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a Division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mike and the guys want to introduce Max and Eleven to Dungeons & Dragons, but their campaign takes a freaky turn when El casts a real spell in Mike's house and a creature appears in a crack in the wall.
Author
Series
Faith Herbert Origin Story volume 1
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When she's not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, Faith Herbert is volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. And there's the small matter of recently discovering she can fly. Then the fictional world of The Grove relocates...
19) You belong to me
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
A killer seduces women on ocean cruises and the heroine, psychologist Susan Chandler, decides to get him. She uses her radio program to contact women who escaped his clutches, unaware he has heard the program and is coming after her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Told in two voices, Nate Jae-Woo Kim and Kate Anderson team up in a survivalist competition hoping the prize money will help his proud Korean family and enable her to pursue her dream of becoming an actress.
When one of his classmates offers Nate Jae-Woo Kim a ridiculous amount of money to commit grade fraud, he knows that taking the windfall would help support his prideful Korean family. But is compromising his integrity worth it? Kate Anderson,...
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